Cavarero, Adriana

For more than one voice : toward a philosophy of vocal expression by Adriana Cavarero( )

15 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 1,774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Starting from the given uniqueness of every voice, Cavarero rereads the history of philosophy through its peculiar evasion of this embodied uniqueness. She proposes a "politics of the voice" wherein the ancient bond between Logos and politics is reconfigured, and wherein what matters is not the content of a discourse, but rather who is speaking

Horrorism : naming contemporary violence by Adriana Cavarero( )

27 editions published between 2007 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--To capture the experience of violence." "Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the Iliad, in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of Medea's children. In the modern arena, she forges a link between horror, extermination, and massacre, especially the Nazi death camps, and revisits the work of Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism, and Arendt's debate with Georges Bataille on the estheticization of violence and cruelty. In applying the horroristic paradigm to the current phenomena of suicide bombers, torturers, and hypertechnological warfare, Cavarero integrates Susan Sontag's views on photography and the eroticization of horror, as well as ideas on violence and the state advanced by Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. Through her searing analysis, Caverero proves that violence against the helpless claims a specific vocabulary, one that has been known for millennia, and not just to the Western tradition. Where common language fails to form a picture of atrocity, horrorism paints a brilliant portrait of its vivid reality."--Jacket

Inclinations : a critique of rectitude by Adriana Cavarero( )

11 editions published between 2016 and 2020 in English and held by 823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject-one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman, Leonardo da Vinci, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Alexander Rodchenko) and literature (Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf)

Thou shalt not kill : a political and theological dialogue by Adriana Cavarero( )

9 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in English and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill. The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just war and drone strikes, from bioethics and biopolitics to hermeneutics and philology, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, from Torah and Scripture to art and literature, from the essence of human dignity and the paradoxes of fratricide to engagements with Levinasian ethics. Less a direct debate than a disputation in the classical sense, Thou Shalt Not Kill proves to be a searching meditation on one of the unstated moral premises shared by otherwise bitterly opposed political factions. It will stimulate the mind of the novice while also reminding more advanced readers of the necessity and desirability of thinking in the present

Relating narratives : storytelling and selfhood by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

18 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in English and held by 502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Drawing from a diverse array of thinkers from philosophical and literary traditions, this text shows how narrative models can open new ways of thinking about formation of human identities

In spite of Plato : a feminist rewriting of ancient philosophy by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

32 editions published between 1990 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosophers' texts - mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides - in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking. Cavarero develops a philosophical narrative which, by re-interpreting each of the four figures of Ancient thought, uncovers several images of the female desire for self-representation. Plato himself had not foreseen that one day female subjectivity would assert its autonomy, plundering and throwing into confusion the patriarchal text in order to tell another story."--Page 4 of cover

In spite of Plato : a feminist rewriting of ancient philosophy by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

5 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in English and held by 265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts--mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides--in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking. Cavarero develops a philosophical narrative which, by re-interpreting each of the four figures of ancient thought, uncovers several images of the female desire for self-representation. Plato himself had not forseen that one day female subjectivity would assert its autonomy, plundering and throwing into confusion the patriarchal text in order to tell another story

Stately bodies : literature, philosophy, and the question of gender by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

8 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tu che mi guardi, tu che mi racconti : filosofia della narrazione by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

17 editions published between 1997 and 2011 in Italian and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ogni essere umano desidera ricevere da un altro il racconto della propria storia: solo gli altri possono scorgere il disegno di un'identità e raccontarlo in sua presenza. Non "che cosa" è ciascuno, ma "chi" è: si potrebbe sintetizzare così la categoria di "unicità" elaborata da Hannah Arendt. In una prospettiva femminista, Cavarero utilizza l'unicità per polemizzare contro il Soggetto forte della tradizione metafisica e la soggettività frammentata postmoderna. Karen Blixen, Edipo, Borges, Ulisse, Rilke, Euridice, Sheherazade vengono convocati a testimoniare le varie forme in cui un individuo riceve da una narrazione il proprio ritratto. I rapporti d'amore, l'amicizia femminile, l'esperienza femminista dei gruppi di autocoscienza e la generale attitudine delle donne al racconto sono gli scenari in cui la narrazione si sposa con la politica

Orrorismo, ovvero, Della violenza sull'inerme by Adriana Cavarero( Book )

11 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in Spanish and Italian and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide